Endorsement cpp en

Lima, February 1st, 2017 Mr. Rodolfo Pereira Washington DC Dear Rodolfo: We were surprised to learn of your award - winning film project Curfew, which recently won the prize awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture. I call it a surprise because your screenplay brings to light an unfortunate moment in the history of our country that seems to be very distant and forgotten.

To the Association of Journalists of Peru that I am honored to represent, and for the Peruvian journalism in general, the years of terrorism we lived meant not only facing daily news that life had no value --but firsthand experience of the inherent risks associated with news coverage. The murder of our eight reporters on March 26, 1983 in Ayacucho, Uchuraccay while seeking uncover the truth is an open wound that will not heal—but to forget is far worse.

After more than three decades since this tragedy occurred, recent generations have forgotten the reasons why Peru was then bled to death. Moreover, the assassination of these colleagues, the largest number of journalists in world history while covering the Peruvian internal conflict, are part of a total of 17 journalists dead in the Ayacucho region and 70 deaths throughout Peru during those terrible years.

Who better than a journalist such as yourself – of renowned prestige both within our country and outside of it - to carry out this project that portrays a time of convulsion and crossfire among Peruvians. For those reasons, I offer you our institutional support for the purposes that it deems convenient.

We are confident that this feature film will not only allow our compatriots not to forget events that should never be repeated, but also convey to the world what insane and demented terrorist ideologies can achieve when the public is not well informed and the responsibility that the media must assume.

Hoping that our institutional sponsorship will also contribute to your film project, I reiterate to you my personal feelings and esteem.